The poetry center
exposes children to the genre of poetry. In this center,
students are able to practice reading with fluency a well as write
poems of their own. Students can create a poetry notebook or
use their reader's response notebook to complete some of the
following activities:

Ideas for poetry
center/stations:

Copy a poem from a chart or a poetry
book.

Illustrate a poem.

Complete a poetry prompt.

Highlight interesting words.

Read a poem with a buddy.

Fill in a poem with missing words
(Poem Cloze).

Substitute words in a poem.

Record a poem on tape.

Create a poem using magnetic poem
kit.

Find patterns in a poem.

Memorize and/or perform a poem.

Author study on poets.

Compare two poems using a venn
diagram.

Complete poetry task cards.

Build a poem from sentence strips on
a pocket chart.

Poetry
Chart (Placed in their notebooks to sign off after doing buddy
reading).